Pre-purchase buyer’s remorse

Assembly Speaker Joseph J. Roberts Jr. a short time back finished up a news conference with reporters to talk about his decision not to seek re-election to the Assembly. It was about 22 minutes long and covered a lot of ground — as the day unfolds, I’ll post a few snippets here from what he said.

Here’s his take on the governor’s race, starting with Republican Chris Christie.

“The more people see Chris Christie up close, the more they will have buyer’s remorse even before the election.”

“Without too much hard work, the public I think now has a sense that Mr. Christie views himself as above the law. There’s one set of rules for everybody else, and there’s one set of rules for him. For him frankly to deride our ethics disclosure form in New Jersey as being a joke and then fail to fulfill the requirements of it as a candidate is preposterous. Someone running for governor has to do better than that.”